Garment-weight



G. s. NOBLE.

GARMENT WEIGHT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, I9I6.

1,319, 170. Patented Oct. 21,1919.

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LUMTEDI STATES PATENT GLENN s. NOBLE, oF cHIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

GARMENT WEIGHT.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GLENN S. NOBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Weights, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to weights or weighted tape adapted to be placed in the bottom of garments, such as coats, skirts, or the like. The principal objects of this invention are to provide weights or weighted tape which will be exceedingly flexible and pliable, which may be readily sewn through .t any point thereof, which may be conveniently made in different sizes, to give any desired weight, and which will have such other advantages as will appear from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating this invention:

Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of the weight or weight material;

Fig. 2 is across sectional View taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing a slightly modified form of construction; and 4 Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 4:4 of Fig. 3.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, 5 indicates a cover or casing preferably made out of any light flexible material, such as muslin, lawn or other suitable fabric. This casing incloses a filler 6 of relatively fine threads of heavy material, such as lead. These threads are sufficiently long so as to make a more or less compact and continuous filler, and are sufliciently fine or of such small diameter that the filler is exceedingly flexible, and may be sewn through at any point. I have found that threads approximately l /75 of an inch in diameter or less make suitable filler material. A preferred form of material for this purpose consists of lead wool, although any other substance having similar properties, such as fiat strips of lead, may be utilized. In making the weight the filler is preferably pressed or flattened into a strip of the proper size, and

then the cover 5 is applied thereto, and if the weight is to be of considerable width, as shown in Fig. 1, several stitchings, as in dicated at 7 8, 9, and 10 are run lengthwise of the weight, so as to hold the cover and ratent c ocezi, -19.19.

Application filed May 1, 1916.. Serial No. 94,746.

filler closely together and hold the filler in proper position. If desired a strip such as indicated at 11 may be left along one or both sides of the casing, for attachment to the goods to which the weight is to be applied.

In the modified form of construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4, a relatively narrow strip of weighted tape is shown. In this instance the filler 12 is first secured between two strips of fabric 13 and 14, and the cover 15 is then applied, and is held by a stitching 16 passing down the center of the tape. This improved weighted tape or garment weight may be applied to the bottom of a coat or dress in a more or less continuous strip, or short pieces may be cut off and sewn at any desired points in the garment. On account of being flexible and yielding, this improved weight will not tend to mark the goods of the dress or coat, or wear through the same, as commonly occurs where ordinary flat metallic disks are used for this purpose. Furthermore, the Weight or weight material may be more readily applied, as it can be sewn through at any point, and will therefore be more firmly held than with common forms of weights such as now used. This improved weight material, when used in the heavier sizes, will avoid the objection of being noisy when striking objects such as chairs; or annoying, by striking the wearer, as frequently occurs with iaiavy weights when placed in coats or the It is apparent that the cover may be applied in various ways, and the weight or weighted material may be put up in dif ferent forms or shapes for different garments or conditions, and therefore I do not wish to limit myself to the exact construction herein shown and described, except as specified in the following claims, in which I claim;

1. A garment weight, comprising a filler composed of threads of soft inelastic metal .of high specific gravity pressed together,

and a casing inclosing the same.

2. A garment weight, comprising a filler composed of relatively fine threads of lead, and a casing inclosing the same.

3. A material for garment weights, comprising a filler composed of filaments of lead combined together to form a mass, with a casing of fabric inclosing the same, and sewing passing through the casing and the filler. I

4. A Weighted tape for garments, comprising an outer casing of fabric, With a filler of lead Wool, comprising filaments of lead arranged in more or less intertwined relation to each other.

5. A Weight material for garment Weights,

comprising filaments of soft inelastic metal flopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Comm I Washington, 0.

filaments being sufiiciently small so as to permit a sewing needle to pass readily through the mass.

forth comprising a filler composed of a plurality of strips of inelastic metal inclosed in a casing of fabric, the arrangement being such as to permit a sewing needle to pass readily through the tape at any point.

GLENN s. NOBLE.

issioner of Patents, 

